New #surveyMethods paper replicates and extends differences in #dataQuality, attention, naivety, decision style, etc. by
- online #research recruitment platform (#mTurk, #Prolific, #Qualtrics, #Pollfish)
- device (#mobile v. #desktop)
- person's incentive

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02618-1

Doing #research on #crowdsourcing platforms is the closest thing to working in #customer #service as an academic. You reject a submission for failing attention checks, speeding through a 20-minute study in 90 seconds, and submitting absolute nonsense? Now they’re in your inbox demanding payment, insisting they “definitely read everything”, and arguing that your study is “literally broken” (you do realise I can see your data, right?).

Bestie, I’m an unpaid #PhD #student working with carefully budgeted research funding. I do not have the energy to fight over £1,50. I just want to wrap up this study, analyse my depressing data, and go home to lie face down on the floor for an unspecified amount of time. Please, leave me alone. #Prolific #SundayRant

Excited to share YEARS of research about how to get people to think reflectively and how reflection impacts philosophical judgments at the 2025 #APA in #NewYorkCity (January 8 to 11): https://www.apaonline.org/mpage/2025eastern

Can't make it?
- More about my talk: https://researchgate.net/publication/370132037
- More about my poster: https://researchgate.net/publication/371248872

Thanks to the #APA, James Beebe, and the Experimental Philosophy Society for the opportunity!

#CeiBell, #prolific #trans #writer, has #died.

A longtime #communityadvocate, Bell helped #organize the city’s first #GayPrideParade in June 1972 and co-founded #RadicalQueens the following year.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Activism #RoleModels #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

https://epgn.com/2024/02/13/cei-bell-prolific-trans-writer-has-died/

A question for the #HCI folks (please repost for more reach):

Since the #LLM cat is definitely out of the bag now, do you feel that #Prolific, #MTurk, etc. are still a reliable source of survey participants and consequently, survey data?

Groundhogs to the left of me
Babies to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with a live trap.

Someday soon, going with him, someday soon

I've relocated two, but Bob got Alice III pregnant before leaving.
I'll be reuniting them later.

Alice has been in the trap many times and it failed to go off.
#Nature #Groundhog #Groundhogs #Pests #Babies #Prolific #AltText
She enjoyed free inflight meals, without the vacation.

Next Wednesday I'll give a #prolific webinar series talk.

"Open Science and Reproducibility in Online Research"

It is a topic I will try my best to do justice! But one that will always benefit from discussion #openscience

You can register here: prolific.co/webinars